Poll Position: Where the heart is
This week’s Poll Position question is:
I’ll run down the options after the jump.
This week’s Poll Position question is:
I’ll run down the options after the jump.
Having your own super-powers would be a neat challenge, but would you willingly impose them on your child? That’s the heart of this week’s Poll Position:
The way I see it, you have two sets of consideration here. First, what effect would having those powers from a young age have on a youngster? And second, how would their abilities affect your ability to parent them effectively while they are growing up? Looking at them one-by-one:
So having thought through all that, I think I’d probably choose Spider-Man. He’s strong, can avoid trouble, is quick, and couldn’t do mass harm if he turned out badly.
This week’s Poll Position question is:
Discussion after the jump.
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This week’s poll position is:
Discussion after the jump.
For this week’s poll I’m asking you to think outside the box. If you’re a man, think about what it would be like a woman. And if you’re a woman already, think about what it would be like to be a man, thinking about being a woman. And if you’re a hermaphrodite, imagine what it would be like if you had to choose only one gender. And if you’re … but enough of that. The actual question for this week is:
Discussion and deep thinking after the jump.
So here’s a question for you:
The key here is that you get the character’s entire power set, but you can only use each power once. Do you choose someone with lots and lots of powers, none of which is crazy awesome, or someone who can do only one or two things but at a massive scale? Plus you have to factor in whether you’re of a chaotic or orderly bent — would you use your power(s) for personal gain, or to help others? Here’s my take on each of the options, let me know yours in the comments!
Super powers are usually presented as all up-side. But there are always drawbacks to any ability, and this week I got to thinking about what powers would have their pluses outweighed by their minuses.
Here are my thoughts on them, I’m curious to hear how you parse out the choices.
Last week we went high-brow and intellectual with the father question, so this week we go low-brow and try to decide who would beat the snot out of whom. In our Champions game we would call this a “slug fest scenario”, or, more commonly, “Let’s go find a large open space” in which to fling fistfulls of dice at each other. So here are your choices:
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Not all fathers are super, but not all supers are good fathers. I’m not sure what brought it up this week, but I got to thinking about what makes a good father, and what makes a good super-hero, and whether there was much overlap between the two. The fact is, we don’t have a lot of examples of comic book characters who are also parents, the notable exception being Reed and Sue Richards and their son Franklin. So here’s our question of the week:
I included some villains in there too because hey, some people want to inherit the Evil Empire, you know? And I added a caveat that you won’t inherit their powers because otherwise the question becomes basically “Whose powers do you want”, which I’ve done before. I wanted to instead get you thinking about the qualities of fathers and supers and where the intermix.
From a purely mercenary perspective, of course, there are some people who would answer based on financial considerations — why get Peter Parker’s kitty full of nothin’ when you could be the King of Latvia, after all? But then, you have to consider what Victor Von Doom would be like as a day-to-day dad.
I look forward to hearing what you all think about the choices, and why you choose what you do.
Each week I spend time thinking up a (hopefully) interesting poll question, and I’m always fascinated to see people vote. But why do they vote the way they do? Why wouldn’t you automatically pick Firestorm’s powers to help you through a post-nuclear-holocaust world — the guy can make literally anything he can think of!
So starting this week, each Sunday when I put up the new poll, I’ll do so in a post like this one, so people can leave comments if they so please on what they think of the various options, why they chose as they did, etc. So here’s the first one:
I play poker every week and I’ve often wondered what super-powers would make for the best gambler. And then I wonder why so few super-heroes ever go to Vegas and actually gamble — She-Hulk was there in one series I put in the Mashup last week, but she just beat the crap out of stuff. Why not hit the tables, too?! But then, taking the element of chance out of it pretty much ruins the fun, I suppose.
Of course, the actual heroes on the list would never use their powers this way, so that part of it’s moot. But that’s why the question is not “Which of these characters would you want to see go to Vegas” but rather “YOU have their powers, what would YOU like to be able to do”!
That’s what I was thinking, but I’d love to hear why you pick the one you pick. And stay out of my poker game!
